PUBLIC MEETINGS & EVENTS

August 28 - September 14, 2016 - Cannabis Regulations Don’t Have to Be a BuMMeR: PFC’s Cannabis Regulation Demystification Tour (Cities All Over California)

With the passage of Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act (MMRSA), California’s medical cannabis industry is now moving into a state licensing program. Voters will also be deciding on yet another major regulatory bill, Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) in November. Both laws include robust product safety protocols as well as a new licensing program. Patient Focused Certification, a project of Americans for Safe Access is hosting an educational tour for the California medical cannabis industry to help demystify the regulations that will come from Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation (BMMR) and give practical advice for business to meet and exceed these requirements.

TAKE ACTION NOW

Congress is on summer break and now is the perfect time for you to arrange meetings in your district offices. With four simple steps you can help educate and inform legislators of the growing need for an alternate treatment for the millions of patients suffering from pain every day.

Membership matters! Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is the nation’s leading medical cannabis patients’ advocacy organization. Our goal is to make medical cannabis legally available for everyone who needs it, and we need your help to make that happen!

ASA members are patients, caretakers, doctors, researchers, attorneys, providers and concerned community members who are helping to overcome barriers to safe and dignified access to medical cannabis nationwide. ASA provides a patient-focused perspective on medical cannabis legislation and regulations. We strive to change state and federal laws to meet the needs of patients.

ASA WEBSITE SPOTLIGHT

Use of prescription opioids has greatly increased over the last few decades, despite a lack of data supporting their efficacy in long-term use, and immediate efforts are needed to mitigate the public health crisis created by the over-reliance on opioids to treat pain (Chou, 2015). Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that opioids—a class of drugs that includes prescription pain medications and heroin—were involved in 28,648 deaths in 2014 (Rudd, Aleshire, Zibbell, J. E.,Gladden, 2015).

Thousands of patients are dying every year from opioid overdoses because they are in pain and do not have a safer alternative to relieve their pain. While the evidence that cannabis is medicinally useful in treating chronic pain continues to increase, without a single documented case of an overdose, federal legislators continue to fight against rescheduling cannabis to a schedule that would allow it to be used as medicine. Americans for Safe Access (ASA) has created this document to educate and inform legislators and regulators of the growing need for an alternate treatment for the millions of patients suffering from pain every day.

ASA CHAPTER & AFFLIATE MEETINGS

August 16, 2016 - Nevada County ASA Meeting (Grass Valley)

6:00 PM at the Golden Empire Grange, 11283 Grange Ct., Grass Valley, CA 95945 (1/4 mile from McKnight off La Barr Meadows). We will update you on our research on the various options we discussed at our last meeting and open discussions for your suggestions. Email psmith@asa-nc.com for more information.

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